PUT YOUR INTERESTING IDEAS HERE
INTERESTING IDEA & WHY IT'S INTERESTING TO ME
The most intersesting thing i found out today was the fact that i agree that games may help kids learn better. I still have thoughts that make it deem like a bad idea, but i feel that a lot of good will come out of i. Maybe we will have a higher graduation rate in America if this passes.This may be the brake through we need for our generation to become sucessful.
Nina D.
Kids nowdays don't nessarily want to play videogames. xyoruhimex
The most interesting thing i discovered or that got surfaced was the fact that everything gets replaced. I found this inntriguing because new things come up, and old things become better. As people we are always in search for the next best, or the more convienent easier tool.
Madison Willis
The most interesting idea I discovered was that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, it's interesting that the poor did not have mentoring and that the middle class did.
This resonated with me because I think it's a good reason for change in schools, you can give poor schools laptops and videogames but if you don't teach the kids the context in which to use them than the kids won't get much out of it.
Demi A.
the most intresting thing to me that i learned is that kids use video games as a social network and that most kids that do play video games host chat rooms helping "5o year old professor's". I have never thought that kids who do this could be so smart, i always thought that video games wouldn't make kids smarter. But i guess that using all this technology and using the different tricks and cheat codes that they learn while playing the video games is helping them learn new ideas to use in the real world. - colina1 Feb 18, 2010colina1
Kids spend hours upon hours devoloping these "social skills" on World of Warcraft, but when they get to school they are super shy and don't apply these skills. This is because these ARE NOT REAL LIFE SKILLS. -beaman
I agree with Beaman because some people have more confidence playing a video game because they get to portray a super character that can never "die" and has superhuman powers or can use weapons to its defense. Then in the realword they actually lack their social skills when they come to terms with reality.- Tiffany
Something I found interesting was the lack of interest in the games the kids are playing from the parents. They don’t exactly alter what the kids are playing and like the fact that it is a semi babysitter.
Taylor S.
I think that multiple new methods are needed for teaching, more than just video games, however. Not everyone is interested in video games, so other sources are needed. Although i do agree it would work for those who enjoy them. Teachers are the ones that need to take the first step to bring the attention to others - Edward M.
The most interesting idea I discovered today was when most of the speakers agreed with the fact that all students enjoy to play video games. I disagree with that statement becasue I do not own video game and really have only played them once or twice, so I could not say that I like to play video games. I believe that students will do just fine in school if video games were not involoved and this would not affect their leaning process.
Carla
I found it interestiong that the one professor seemed to think that all kids play games in a social way and that they are somehow super beneficial to social skills and real life decision making skills. While in some ways I think kids do play socially and get some social skills out of a game, I also think there is a trade off between social skills learned in the times spent playing videogames and real life speaking social skills learned in the time spent out in the world making physical contact with people. It's interesting to me because I still think that even with some collaboration in videogame play, I think that real life social skills are lost if too much time is spent online instead of with people.-Hillary
You cannot rely on games solely because of technology glitches and, also, not everyone learns with video games because not everyone is tech savy. I'm not saying that video games are bad, they just can not become the only way kids are allowed to learn.
Inez.
One of the guys talked about World of Warcraft building social skills.That seems incorrect. You play WoW in a badly lit bedroom without people physically there. Chances are that the person playing won't apply the social skills used in the game in real life. But you never know, it could help...
Helena
I think that video games are already a very important part of our society because some games are more social than the real life . Video games let you play together in teams and to win the game you have to comunicate and plan with each other. This is improving your social and team skills which are both very important in your later work life . Video Games are also providing a sense of competition which is very important for your later work life too because you are competing everyday in your company for promotions . If you never compete before you will most of the time lose this battle . Therefore I think that everybody should play video games sometimes because in a special sense they are preparing you for your later life.
Maik G.
I think the most interesting thing I learned today was that video games can be educational, even the ones with violence. Video games can lead up to building websites and chatting with professors, and these kids are like 13. Stephanienk
The thing today that I found most interesting was that kids should have a mentor when learning how to play video games. I think this is most interesting because it shows that in order to have kids get the most out of the learning tool that video games could be, they need to have parents who are proactive and will look to the future to teach their children what they will need to know to be successful. - catherinemccurdy Feb 18, 2010 Catherine McCurdy
One assumption made by a speaker is: "Kids who are spending their time on a game which they are learning productively, are not obsessed with the game." Are kids who are obsessed really not learning, then?
Games can subconciously teach skills in a matter of minutes that would take days of lectures and classes to master.
Interactivity maximizes the brain's learning efficiency.
I thought this was interesting because it would make learning several life or job skills much easier, reducing the need for tedious or unnessecary work. - ZaneTRushing Feb 18, 2010ZaneTRushing
The most intersting idea i heard in Digital Nation was the thought that it might become possible
to have a game in school for the pupils to improve their skills.
To me this idea is really intersting, because this way of learning could help many students in the close future to
experience new and more intersting ways of learning.By having these games i think students will learn better and more curiously.
Julien
The idea that people who monitor/mentor the videogames that their kids play was really interesting to me. It was said that people who mentor their kids on the technologies that they are using are less likely to have kids that are obsessed with the said technologies. This was very intriguing to me and made me think about all my peers who are "obsessed" with video games and what their parents might think about them.
--Katherine C.
I think people should realize that kids need to be taught, not given complete freedom, or put under strict regulations on technology. We learn through observation,
so if we see our mentor, parent, or elder using technology appropriately and in the correct context- then we will too. The most effectively way we can pass knowledge down, is probably through human interaction.
-Selena Puente
I agree that, "there's no answer to whether games are good or bad, it depends what you do with them," mostly. But I also think that time management with games is important. It's good for someone to be learning from a game, and if it's beneficial I say that's a good thing, but you can't be living your life playing a game or on the computer and spending all day everday doing that. You've got to learn from real life experiences too and get out and interact. I think strategic games are pretty cool and you really do use your mind for them, but you don't have to spend all your time on them, I don't think it should be the only way we learn. Being able to learn from games is a good thing, but also you definitely can't gain all your social skills from them or anything. - Krysta
Well I loved that he talked about MUN. I ahd never thought about it that way before. In MUN you assume a differnet character and learn how to work together with other people who are assumingt hat character role. THis is just like in some video games...And people complain that students cant apply these skills in the real world or that what they do in video games is entirely virtual and unrealistic. Not true! people can get so much from gaming! but whats funny is that the average age of gamers is 35! so its not even kids that are the ones who play them the most!
But teachers Should be using whatever technique they can to get kids to want to learn. If some kids learn better with video games and visual stimulation then dont force them to learn another way inadequately. Work with them to capture that way that they love to learn. - alixrowe Feb 18, 2010 Alix rowe
Model United Nations is a role playing game. I've never thought about it this way before. - nd2side Feb 18, 2010nd2side
I thought it was facinating how the person mentioned how school is preconditioning us to avoid failiure.
We go through classes and many people just want the teacher to tell them exactly how, so that they can replicate
the process. They don't really learn anything just how to complete the process for the day, they just understand it
temporarily. Personally, I can memorize anything for three minutes to pass a test, but I didn't truly learn anything
and I will not retain. However, if I fail and have to try to learn it again and really understand it I gain more. I
thought it was interesting how they thought that video games taught us how to deal with failiure, but has school's preconditioning
made us more driven to use cheats? How many of us get frusterated if we loose and resort to cheats? - Ylime1 Feb 18, 2010 Emily
Questions & Comments
Please pose at least one question and respond to at least one question aboutDigital Nation: Learning - Games That Teach
Which learning style do you think is more important: multiplayer games in school to cultivate team working skills and proper use of technology, or individual learning and assesments to test one's knowledge? - DanielMiller91 Feb 18, 2010 Daniel Miller
Interesting Ideas
What were the most interesting ideas you discovered in Digital Nation: Learning - Games That Teach?Why did these resonate with you?
PUT YOUR INTERESTING IDEAS HERE
INTERESTING IDEA & WHY IT'S INTERESTING TO ME
The most intersesting thing i found out today was the fact that i agree that games may help kids learn better. I still have thoughts that make it deem like a bad idea, but i feel that a lot of good will come out of i. Maybe we will have a higher graduation rate in America if this passes.This may be the brake through we need for our generation to become sucessful.
Nina D.
Kids nowdays don't nessarily want to play videogames. xyoruhimex
The most interesting thing i discovered or that got surfaced was the fact that everything gets replaced. I found this inntriguing because new things come up, and old things become better. As people we are always in search for the next best, or the more convienent easier tool.
Madison Willis
The most interesting idea I discovered was that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, it's interesting that the poor did not have mentoring and that the middle class did.
This resonated with me because I think it's a good reason for change in schools, you can give poor schools laptops and videogames but if you don't teach the kids the context in which to use them than the kids won't get much out of it.
Demi A.
the most intresting thing to me that i learned is that kids use video games as a social network and that most kids that do play video games host chat rooms helping "5o year old professor's". I have never thought that kids who do this could be so smart, i always thought that video games wouldn't make kids smarter. But i guess that using all this technology and using the different tricks and cheat codes that they learn while playing the video games is helping them learn new ideas to use in the real world. -
Kids spend hours upon hours devoloping these "social skills" on World of Warcraft, but when they get to school they are super shy and don't apply these skills. This is because these ARE NOT REAL LIFE SKILLS. -beaman
I agree with Beaman because some people have more confidence playing a video game because they get to portray a super character that can never "die" and has superhuman powers or can use weapons to its defense. Then in the realword they actually lack their social skills when they come to terms with reality.- Tiffany
Something I found interesting was the lack of interest in the games the kids are playing from the parents. They don’t exactly alter what the kids are playing and like the fact that it is a semi babysitter.
Taylor S.
I think that multiple new methods are needed for teaching, more than just video games, however. Not everyone is interested in video games, so other sources are needed. Although i do agree it would work for those who enjoy them. Teachers are the ones that need to take the first step to bring the attention to others - Edward M.
The most interesting idea I discovered today was when most of the speakers agreed with the fact that all students enjoy to play video games. I disagree with that statement becasue I do not own video game and really have only played them once or twice, so I could not say that I like to play video games. I believe that students will do just fine in school if video games were not involoved and this would not affect their leaning process.
Carla
I found it interestiong that the one professor seemed to think that all kids play games in a social way and that they are somehow super beneficial to social skills and real life decision making skills. While in some ways I think kids do play socially and get some social skills out of a game, I also think there is a trade off between social skills learned in the times spent playing videogames and real life speaking social skills learned in the time spent out in the world making physical contact with people. It's interesting to me because I still think that even with some collaboration in videogame play, I think that real life social skills are lost if too much time is spent online instead of with people.-Hillary
You cannot rely on games solely because of technology glitches and, also, not everyone learns with video games because not everyone is tech savy. I'm not saying that video games are bad, they just can not become the only way kids are allowed to learn.
Inez.
One of the guys talked about World of Warcraft building social skills.That seems incorrect. You play WoW in a badly lit bedroom without people physically there. Chances are that the person playing won't apply the social skills used in the game in real life. But you never know, it could help...
Helena
I think that video games are already a very important part of our society because some games are more social than the real life . Video games let you play together in teams and to win the game you have to comunicate and plan with each other. This is improving your social and team skills which are both very important in your later work life . Video Games are also providing a sense of competition which is very important for your later work life too because you are competing everyday in your company for promotions . If you never compete before you will most of the time lose this battle . Therefore I think that everybody should play video games sometimes because in a special sense they are preparing you for your later life.
Maik G.
I think the most interesting thing I learned today was that video games can be educational, even the ones with violence. Video games can lead up to building websites and chatting with professors, and these kids are like 13. Stephanienk
The thing today that I found most interesting was that kids should have a mentor when learning how to play video games. I think this is most interesting because it shows that in order to have kids get the most out of the learning tool that video games could be, they need to have parents who are proactive and will look to the future to teach their children what they will need to know to be successful.
-
One assumption made by a speaker is: "Kids who are spending their time on a game which they are learning productively, are not obsessed with the game." Are kids who are obsessed really not learning, then?
-
Games can subconciously teach skills in a matter of minutes that would take days of lectures and classes to master.
Interactivity maximizes the brain's learning efficiency.
I thought this was interesting because it would make learning several life or job skills much easier, reducing the need for tedious or unnessecary work.
-
The most intersting idea i heard in Digital Nation was the thought that it might become possible
to have a game in school for the pupils to improve their skills.
To me this idea is really intersting, because this way of learning could help many students in the close future to
experience new and more intersting ways of learning.By having these games i think students will learn better and more curiously.
Julien
The idea that people who monitor/mentor the videogames that their kids play was really interesting to me. It was said that people who mentor their kids on the technologies that they are using are less likely to have kids that are obsessed with the said technologies. This was very intriguing to me and made me think about all my peers who are "obsessed" with video games and what their parents might think about them.
--Katherine C.
I think people should realize that kids need to be taught, not given complete freedom, or put under strict regulations on technology. We learn through observation,
so if we see our mentor, parent, or elder using technology appropriately and in the correct context- then we will too. The most effectively way we can pass knowledge down, is probably through human interaction.
-Selena Puente
I agree that, "there's no answer to whether games are good or bad, it depends what you do with them," mostly. But I also think that time management with games is important. It's good for someone to be learning from a game, and if it's beneficial I say that's a good thing, but you can't be living your life playing a game or on the computer and spending all day everday doing that. You've got to learn from real life experiences too and get out and interact. I think strategic games are pretty cool and you really do use your mind for them, but you don't have to spend all your time on them, I don't think it should be the only way we learn. Being able to learn from games is a good thing, but also you definitely can't gain all your social skills from them or anything. - Krysta
Well I loved that he talked about MUN. I ahd never thought about it that way before. In MUN you assume a differnet character and learn how to work together with other people who are assumingt hat character role. THis is just like in some video games...And people complain that students cant apply these skills in the real world or that what they do in video games is entirely virtual and unrealistic. Not true! people can get so much from gaming! but whats funny is that the average age of gamers is 35! so its not even kids that are the ones who play them the most!
But teachers Should be using whatever technique they can to get kids to want to learn. If some kids learn better with video games and visual stimulation then dont force them to learn another way inadequately. Work with them to capture that way that they love to learn. -
Model United Nations is a role playing game. I've never thought about it this way before.
-
I thought it was facinating how the person mentioned how school is preconditioning us to avoid failiure.
We go through classes and many people just want the teacher to tell them exactly how, so that they can replicate
the process. They don't really learn anything just how to complete the process for the day, they just understand it
temporarily. Personally, I can memorize anything for three minutes to pass a test, but I didn't truly learn anything
and I will not retain. However, if I fail and have to try to learn it again and really understand it I gain more. I
thought it was interesting how they thought that video games taught us how to deal with failiure, but has school's preconditioning
made us more driven to use cheats? How many of us get frusterated if we loose and resort to cheats? -
Questions & Comments
Please pose at least one question and respond to at least one question about Digital Nation: Learning - Games That TeachWhich learning style do you think is more important: multiplayer games in school to cultivate team working skills and proper use of technology, or individual learning and assesments to test one's knowledge? -